AY Honor Beekeeping

Beekeeping

Skill Level

2

Year

1929

Version

04.11.2025

Approval authority

General Conference

Overview

This is an activity-centered honor where YOU become a beekeeper and successfully tend your hive from spring through the honey making season all the way to harvest! Honeybees are becoming endangered, help them by providing a safe and honey-making location for them to call home!

The Challenging Part

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

14. Carry out the following duties of successful beekeeping:

a. Spring feed to stimulate brood production

b. Supering and other swarm prevention techniques

c. Extract honey and put into jars

d. Fall feeding and "taking the hive down" to prepare it for the winter months